I’m no doctor, but I’m pretty confident “social drinking” does not damage your liver this badly by age 31.
Great, another abbreviation. There are new ones popping up in commercials all the time. Everybody seems to want one.
When I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself.
It depends on one’s tolerance to alcohol, which is often genetic. But the same genetic factor that produce tolerance to alcohol can often result in alcoholism, so don’t think of it as a blessing.
Liver is genetic. Blood Pressure may not be. What kills more drunks than anything?
Accidents. Wrecks, falls, stupid stuff.
Well, even those of us who consider ourselves to have good health oft wonder about how much better it could have been if not damaged by activities from wayward and misspent youth...
I think in the UK a lot of people believe getting blackout drunk is just a typical way to hang out with friends. Pass out in the street. Everyone does that ... right? Just being social.
But by definition, my alcohol consumption from my late teens to late 20s would be considered binge drinking. It felt normal because people around me were doing the same - and now it was catching up with me.
If it was “binge drinking” it wasn’t “social drinking.”
I eventually received a new liver and am doing quite well, and Trump’s next inauguration will be much happier, on a personal level.
My point is everyone is different, due to genes and other factors.
I have a brother in law in his 60s who has drank like a fish and smoked like a chimney since he was a teenager and he still walks among us. His life is a shambles, he looks like hell and his voice is so raspy he’s hard to understand. BUT, in spite of his long-term drug use, smoking, and drinking he still walks among us. I don’t know how he isn’t dead.
We’re all different.
Bad genes... That’s the problem... Especially if you’re liver is shot at such a young age. My brother got type 1 diabetes... It was curious, because he didn’t get it until he was 26 and everybody else in the family was fine... After a little genealogical research done later on we discovered relatives who had children who died from a ‘wasting disease’ and ‘starvation’... And it wasn’t starvation from lack of food, everybody in our past was either a fisherman or farmer and while they had hard times, they always had something to eat.
Some people can drink a lot, and they can drink a lot until they’re into their 80s and 90s... No problem at all. Others are not so lucky.
I was a Tito’s vodka alcoholic for about ten years. Lucky to be alive after some of the things I did. It was easier for me to cease consumption of alcohol than it was tobacco. My liver enzymes are fine and my lungs sure feel better.
I remember hearing of ‘Weekend Alcoholics’ in college. Those who only bing drank on the weekends were having huge issues and damage.
I’m a social drinker living in Ohio and every evening at 5PM I have a gin and tonic. I have done this almost every evening for more than 50 years. For my age, I felt good and am without liver problems to the best of my knowledge. A side benefit: In all those years I’ve never had malaria once.
It’s the acetaminophen. It’s in every over the counter med in the UK. It’s insidious. So if you take cold medicine, and some panadol you are destroying your liver. Add a couple of drknks on top and your liver is getting hammered.
Boy after us boomers the population really is on a downward spiral mentally, physically and spiritually.
Honey, if it damaged your liver by 31, you were doing a whole lot more than some light social drinking.
The likelihood of damage varies from person to person.
Tylenol (and many other medications) are toxic to the liver by themselves.
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I wonder if estrogen used for birth control also contributes.
Was she doing her “social drinking” while she was pregnant? I’ve seen the irreparable damage it does to the fetus.